Budget surplus: S’poreans say PM Wong is ‘most risk-averse of them all’

Budget surplus: S’poreans say PM Wong is ‘most risk-averse of them all’

SINGAPORE: Questions about Singapore’s fiscal projections resurfaced after the government reported much larger budget surpluses than initially forecast in recent years, prompting some Singaporeans to question whether the estimates were overly cautious. Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, who previously served as Finance Minister, is widely regarded as a careful steward of Singapore’s public finances. However, the repeated gap between projections and o…